Science Fiction for Old Farts

The Classic Science Fiction Channel has FANS

So, Wil Wheaton (who used to play Wesley Crusher on ST: NextGen) and who has become a tremendously popular writer and blogger, somehow found the CSFC, and sent his discovery along to Boing Boing!, where it got a mention yesterday.

And today the site has fans.

One friend of mine warned me to beware of the ‘slash dot effect’ (small site getting a mention on a large site and going down under the flood of new traffic). Sadly, that’s not happened. Probably because my site is hosted on a server that’s used to dealing with huge amounts of traffic.

On the other hand, traffic to the site is up (it doubled over night) and I’ve started getting cudos via email (one even self-identified as ‘fan mail’).

It appears that my theory regarding the appeal of and market for nostalgia SF is at least marginally correct.

The Classic Science Fiction Channel is not and will not remain the only offering I will have for this market. Big, mysterious things are happening in the background and the time for going public is rapidly approaching.

The announcement will be made here initially, so keep coming back.

In the meantime, some public thank yous to those folks who’ve let me know that my efforts are not in vain:

Lyn Chambers who wrote from Australia to suggest I add UFO and Doctor Who to the site: unfortunately, I’m trying to restrict my links to full episodes of shows and movies, rather than just clips. But, because of Lyn’s (and the suggestions of the folks at the Ray Gun Revival forum) I will be adding a section of ‘incomplete clips’ and ‘questionable content’ to the site.

Paul Davidson (no relation) who said “YEAH! Me Too!”

Sage who ‘dittoed’ as well.

Joey Pickles who found a typo that will be corrected later today

Dean Jansen who suggested that I take the channel over to Miro; I’ll be looking in to that.

Yves Matson who complained that most of the shows are unavailable to Canucks (perhaps Miro will solve that problem) and wants to know if there’s any way that his computer can be made to ‘look like its from the US’

Fred Kiesche who was the aforementioned harbinger of the slash-dot effect.